and honored with promises, and, in short, is judged because of his merits and benefits to be most like to God, how much more is it proper that God Himself, excelling in divinely perfect virtues and removed from every human failing, should act toward the whole race of men with heavenly kindness! Things like that are said speciously and popularly, and they entice many to credence. Those who think these things approach, indeed, quite near to the truth, but they, in part, fall by considering the nature